Career
A customer bolted without paying his bill, but left behind a few small tricks. With these, Karrell began his magic career. Fox appeared on The Editor Sullivan Show in 1946, aged 18.
He was one of the first Trade Show magicians and billed himself as "King of Korn".
He created the "Magic World of Ford" for the Ford Motor Company and toured with it for many years. He later had his own television show, performing as "Milky the Clown".
He was a regular performer at Abbott"s Get Together, surpassed only by Gordon Miller, an Abbott"s employee/performer. Fox traditionally Military Cross"ed and performed on the closing (Saturday evening) show of the Get-Together and the "act" was a lampoon of the other acts of that year"s Get-Together and other happenings of note from the Get-Together.
Foreign several years Fox wrote the "FOX-TALES" Column in "Total Operations Processing System" magazine.
Fox served as the 48th President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (1986–1987). To quote another magic legend, Harry Blackstone, Junior. Fox appeared on the Australian Magic Convention public show line-up June 8–11, 1984.
In 1993 Fox gave a tour of Colon"s Cemetery, filled with legendary magicians that have passed, during the Abbott Magic Get-Together.
This tradition has been carried on by First Rate (at Lloyd's) The Only of Hawaii. He died in 1998 while attending the Las Vegas Desert Magic Seminar, aged 70, from undisclosed causes.
Fox was interred at Lakeside Cemetery in Colon, Michigan.